About us

Envision yourself enjoying sunny days, white sand beaches, palm trees and the tropics… This is your destination for your Disconnect to Reconnect Yin and Restorative Yoga / Stand Up Paddle Board Yoga Retreat. You get to deepen your practice in a safe environment while reconnecting with Self and balancing your body mind, and spirit.

While recharging at our beautiful retreat center in Boca Raton, you are welcome to enjoy daily meditation and yoga classes, or even sit in on our YTT 200hr yoga school’s in depth yoga teachings. Otherwise, feel free to just bask in the sunshine and relax in our hot tub and resort style pool. There are always healing therapy sessions of massage and/or acupuncture available.

At Zen Den Yoga School and Retreat center we teach Sadhana Yoga, the Yoga of Spiritual Practice and the asana practices of vinyasa, hatha, yin and restorative flow. Our approach is experiential, contemporary and eclectic. We bring to life the ancient teachings of yoga through accessible spiritual lessons still relevant today.

Highlights:

8 nutritionally balanced breakfast and lunch smoothies with everything you need to recharge and do a mini-detox.

3 nights stay in our beautiful retreat center

Resort style pool and hot tub

Free Community Yoga in the park 9AM Saturday (if you are not in your classes with us)

Free bikes to tour around to outdoor cafes, restaurants, galleries and boutiques, and of course the beach

Enjoy elevating your yoga experience with stand up paddle boarding yoga, and you will take your practice to another level both physically and spiritually. The Stand Up Paddle Board industry is the fastest growing water sport worldwide, because of the accessible learning curve as well as the availability of the practice (no waves needed!). No previous experience needed either! We’ll start you off with learning the foundation and we will provide you will the level you need to be challenged wherever you are in your own practice. Sunny Boca Raton is the place to do SUP yoga!

Zen Den Yoga School and Retreat Center provides the yogi and yogini with a safe and nurturing environment to grow and practice the yoga lifestyle. We are not your average yoga retreat, we adhere to the true meaning of the word yoga: to yolk or bring together in all aspects of the eight limbs of yoga.

Your time of Disconnect to Reconnect can be enjoyed in sunrise meditations, beautiful yoga practices in our yoga shala or outside on our yoga decks, stand up paddle board yoga along the Inter-coastal waterways, relaxing massage and energy therapy, balancing acupuncture session, and topped off with our beautiful tropical sunny weather! What else could one ask for?

Ira and his wife Valerie have built an incredible experience offering guests enlightening programs in a wellness oasis minutes from the ocean. The school offers an on-going 200-hour yoga teacher training program, you can feel free to sit in on these lectures, documentary films, and other school activities. Zen Den Yoga School’s belief is that all yoga systems are on the same path, therefore, we embody many traditions of yoga, honoring the diversity of our gurus.

About the
Venue and Teacher

At Zen Den Yoga School and Studio, our programs are a window into the yogaverse. We believe that not only the wealthy deserve to be healthy, so our model is to share our knowledge and journey with everyone.
Our studio classes cater to beginner and intermediate practioners, but we’re an inviting group and have had great experiences with many more advanced yogini. We practice hatha, vinyasa, and restorative flows in our studio and regularly have special events like belly dancing courses, qi gong strength training courses, and food education seminars.
The Zen Den Yoga School helps those seeking greater depth in their yoga journey to achieve their 200-hour yoga teacher training certification. We teach Sadhana Yoga, the Yoga of spiritual practice, including both vinyasa and hatha flows in one-month intensive classes and six-month part-time classes. Our graduates have had the opportunity to practice postures and alignments, explore the meaning of the Yoga Sutras, and also learn several meditation techniques. For the best practical preparation, we hold teaching workshops and perform regular peer-teaching. Students of the Zen Den Yoga School also get introductions to the business and marketing of being a yoga teacher, including a thorough understanding of how to be advantageous in saturated markets like local Boca Raton, FL. Many of our graduates continue to practice with us after they graduate; some even teach at the studio, but we all share a bond and stay in touch.
So come visit us! We welcome all to our studio.
Namaste.

Ira Schneider Ohm, EYRT 500, founded Zen Den Yoga Studio in 2008, Zen Den Yoga School in 2009, and Zen Den Retreat Center in 2013. He has always been blessed with an awareness of something larger then himself. As a boy he embraced practicing Pranayama, meditation, and positive thinking. In his first yoga class Ira knew that this practice was like a coming home, three months later he went to Nicaragua and got his 200 hour yoga teacher training certification.
Upon completion of his YTT 200 with School Yoga Institute, Ira immediately started to teach private and large group classes in Boca Raton, Florida. His strong entrepreneurial background made the creation of Zen Den Yoga Studio the next logical step. Within eleven months he returned to Guatemala for his 500 and 800 hour certifications in order to launch Zen Den Yoga School. He fell in love with the culture, the nature and the Mayan people. He decided in 2009, along with a few other inspired yogis, to build a sustainable yoga farm on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. The Yoga Farm is a retreat center and a yoga school. Ira still leads retreats to the magical energy vortex on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.
Much of Ira's training has been deep in the world of shamanism. His skills of astral travel and ability to see into people make a significant difference in people's lives. His teachings bridge the gap between our illusion of maya and true consciousness. Ira loves sharing his deep knowledge and love of the Sivananda tradition of yoga, Ashtanga-inspired Vinyasa, restorative yoga, and shamanic breath-work with his students, retreat guests and the South Florida community.

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Why Retreat?

We asked people why they go on retreat, here's what they said:

To be more present and engaged in the world, to be of benefit to others.
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Retreat Guru's Vision

We believe human beings are innately wise, strong and kind. This wisdom, although not always experienced, is always present. Going on retreat is a beautiful way to reconnect to our basic sanity and health. Our aspiration at Retreat Guru is to inspire people to experience authentic retreats and reconnect with their innate wisdom, strength and kindness.